Inventory of the Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated
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Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Stryker, Deena
Title
Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated
Language of Material
Material in English and
Spanish
Extent
1.2 Linear Feet
2496 Items
Abstract
2496 Items
Journalist and photographer.
The Deena Stryker Photographs collection dates from July 1963 to July 1964 and contains photographs and related materials from Stryker's two working trips to Cuba. During her second trip to the island, she interviewed Fidel and Raúl Castro as well as other major figures in the Cuban Revolution, including Ernesto
"Che"
Guevara, Celia Sánchez, and René Vallejo. The Correspondence Series contains letters of introduction to Fidel Castro from Stryker as well as one written by Sánchez and a diagram drawn by Raúl Castro. Stryker's analysis of the complexities of nascent post-revolution Cuba are captured in a draft of the book she prepared for publication in Italy, housed in the Manuscript Material Series. The Photographic Material Series contains contact sheets, prints, and negatives shot between December 1963 and July 1964. Topics and photographic subjects include key members of the revolutionary government at work and relaxing; and life in Havana and in rural Cuba, focusing on farms, development projects, and schools. All of Stryker's original negatives were processed in Cuba by Alberto Korda, Fidel Castro's personal photographer. All of Stryker's negatives have been digitized and these images will be made available to the public in their digital form; there are some prints and contact sheet images not represented digitally.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Deena Stryker Photographs, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Deena Stryker Photographs were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library in 2008.
Processing Information
Processed by Christian Ferney, May 2008.
Encoded by Christian Ferney, Noah Huffman, and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, June 2008.
Accession 2008-0064 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Deena Stryker (1933- ), formerly Deena Boyer, was born in the United States, received her Baccalaureate in Paris, and began work as a multilingual journalist at the Agence France-Presse in Rome in 1958. She lived in Poland and Hungry in the late 1960s where she worked in radio. She did graduate work in Global Survival and Future Studies at the University of Massachusetts from 1974 to 1975, and during the Carter administration was a speech writer for Joe Duffy, the Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs from 1977 to 1978. Stryker has lived and worked in France, Italy, Cuba, Holland, the United States, and Eastern Europe.
[top]Collection Overview
The Deena Stryker Photographs collection spans the dates 1963-1964 and contains photographs and related material from Stryker's time in Cuba as a journalist for Paris Match. During her stay, she interviewed Fidel and Raúl Castro as well as other major figures in the Cuban Revolution, including Ernesto
"Che"
Guevara, Celia Sánchez, and René Vallejo. The Correspondence Series contains letters of introduction to Fidel Castro from Stryker as well as one written by Sánchez and a diagram drawn by Raúl Castro. Stryker's analysis of the complexities of nascent post-revolution Cuba are captured in a draft of the book she prepared for publication in Italy, housed in the Manuscript Material Series. The Photographic Material Series contains Stryker's contact sheets, prints, and negatives. Topics and photographic subjects include key members of the revolutionary government at work and relaxing, life in Havana, and in rural Cuba, particularly farms, development projects, and schools. Photographic material was processed by Alberto Korda, Fidel Castro's personal photographer. All of Stryker's negatives have been digitized and these images will be made available to the public in their digital form; there are some prints and contact sheet images not represented digitally.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Stryker, Deena.
- Castro, Fidel, 1926-
- Castro Ruz, Raúl, 1930-
- Guevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967.
- Korda, Alberto, 1928-2001.
- Sánchez Manduley, Celia, d. 1980.
- Vallejo, René.
- Cuba--Description and travel.
- Cuba--Economic conditions--1959-1990.
- Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990.
- Cuba--History--1959-1990.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990.
- Cuba--Social conditions--1959-1990.
- Havana--Social conditions--1959-1990.
- Photographs.
- Contact sheets.
- Negatives.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Correspondence Series, 1963 and undated | ||||||
| | Manuscript Material Series, undated | ||||||
| | Photographic Material Series, 1963-1964 and undated | ||||||
 | | Oversize Materials | ||||||
Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence Series, 1963 and undated
(1 folder)
Contains a letter from Stryker to Fidel Castro inquiring about the possibility of interviewing him, a letter of introduction for Stryker written by Celia Sánchez, and a sketch of the Cuban military command structure hand-drawn and signed by Raúl Castro.
Box 1
1963 July, Dec., and undated
Manuscript Material Series, undated
(3 folders)
Contains an edited draft of Cronache Dall'Isola dei Diavoli Rossi, Stryker's unpublished Italian manuscript account and analysis of Cuban politics and society based on her time there; it became the basis for When the Revolution Was Young, published in 2004.
Box 1
Book manuscript, undated
(3 folders)
Photographic Material Series, 1963-1964 and undated
(2 boxes)
Consists of contact sheets, prints, and negatives of photographs taken by Stryker while in Cuba from December 1963 to June 1964. All photographic films were processed by Alberto Korda, Cuba's official photographer of the revolution. Series includes numerous photographs of Fidel Castro acting in his official role, speaking at rallies, visiting farms, and awaiting the return of Cuban fisherman detained by the U.S. government. In addition, Stryker documents him relaxing at home with friends, exercising, and writing. Additional photographs of notable individuals include Raúl Castro, René Vallejo, Celia Sánchez, and Ernesto
"Che"
Guevara. The photographs chronicle life in Havana, including Carnaval, as well as the Cuban countryside, particularly Sierra and Isla de Turiguano, Bayamo, Camaguey, and Guamo. Two rolls of film document the damage to cane fields and villages in rural Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Flora in late 1963. Many of the contact sheets are annotated. Negatives, contact sheets, and prints are organized sequentially by film roll; uncategorized prints and prints without negatives appear at the end of the series. All of Stryker's negatives have been digitized and these images will be made available to the public in their digital form; there are some prints and contact sheet images not represented digitally.
Box 1
Negatives, 1963-1964 and undated
(2 negative boxes)
Box 2
Contact sheets and prints, 1963-1964 and undated
(1 box)
Negative content lists, undated
(Guama) Indian village at Playa Giron (contact sheets 1-2)
(2 folders)
Camaguey-Santiago, Holguin (contact sheet 3)
Biran, Santiago, and Castello del Morro (contact sheets 4-5)
(2 folders)
Mayari and Santiago (contact sheet 5B)
Palma Soriano (contact sheet 6)
Palma and Bayamo (contact sheet 7)
Bayamo at night (contact sheet 8)
Rio Cauto (contact sheets 9-10)
(2 folders)
Guamo (contact sheet 11)
Sierra (contact sheet 12)
Sierra and Turiguano (contact sheets 13-14)
(2 folders)
January 1st national holiday (contact sheets 15-17)
(3 folders)
Fajardo and Edith Gombos (contact sheet 18)
School in ex-president Prio's house, Makarenkos, and Jimenez (contact sheet 19)
Montane, Crespo, and Makarenkos (contact sheet 20)
Ana Betancourts, Havana, and classroom in Miramar (contact sheet 21)
Siomara's girls (contact sheet 22)
Faustino Perez and Havana (contact sheet 23)
Ramiro
"Ramirito"
Valdez and René Vallejo (contact sheet 24)
Ernesto
"Che"
Guevara, Almeida, and Almeijeiras (contact sheet 25)
Scuola d'Arte and Vallejo (contact sheet 26)
Scuola d'Arte and Cubanacan (contact sheets 27-28)
(2 folders)
Raúl Castro at home (contact sheet 29)
Fisherman with Fidel (contact sheet 31-32)
(2 folders)
Fidel and Feltrinelli on terrace (contact sheet 34)
Fidel on terrace (contact sheet 34B)
Fidel writing with Acosta (contact sheet 35)
Luis Crespo, Celia, and Havana (contact sheet 36B)
Carnival, Miss Estrella, and altar (contact sheet 36)
Carnival (contact sheet 37-38)
(2 folders)
Guillermo Garcia, Rita Longo (contact sheet 39)
Havana (contact sheet 40)
Marcos trial (contact sheet 41)
Marcos trial and Hemingway room (contact sheet 42)
Habana Libre and Havana at night (contact sheet 42B)
Santa Maria Spiaggia (contact sheet 43)
Motel Pinar, San Cristobal (contact sheet 44)
Pinar del Río landscapes,
"mogotes"
(contact sheet 45)
Tobacco, Pinar del Río, and coast (contact sheet 46)
Celia and Carlos Raphael (contact sheet 47)
Habana Este (contact sheet 48)
Oscar Escalante and Faustino Perez (contact sheet 49)
May 1st, Carlos Rafael, and presidential palace (contact sheet 50)
May 1st
"May Day"
(contact sheets 51-51B)
(2 folders)
San Cristobal, Pinar del Río (contact sheet 52)
La Guira, San Cristobal, H.L. Pool (contact sheet 53)
Dance hall, Prado at night, Polynesio (contact sheet 54)
Concert and Havana (contact sheet 55)
Habana Libre night, Malekon, and Siomara (contact sheet 57)
Old Havana (contact sheet 58)
Malekon, Old Havana, and Armando Hart (contact sheet 58B)
Trinidad (contact sheet 59)
Santiago press conference (contact sheet 60)
Unsorted photographs
Photographs without negatives
Oversize Materials
(1 folder)
Includes images of Fidel Castro from Paris Match, and an article on Cuba by Stryker from the Italian magazine Settimo Giorno (1963-1964).
